Wedding Planning Weekend Status Update

Marriage license: check
Ballpark floorplan: check
Menu: check
RSVP count: check (250 guests!)
Bachelorette party dress: check
Wedding day getting ready outfit: check
Luncheon gifts: 75% check
Floral order/balance: check
Cake order/balance: check
Dj meeting and finalization: check
Attendant gifts: 90% check
Cookie cake order: check
Menu card drafted: check
Program wording and design: check
Seating chart: 75% check
Photography shot list: check
Ceremony music: check
Wedding day timeline: check

Man I did a lot yesterday and this week when you put it like that. Props to mom, Phillip, and Heather for the help this week!

Now for today, tomorrow, and Monday's
Plan...

Unity candles
Finishing up above items that aren't
Complete
Wrap gifts
Candy buffet
Meet with uncle Jerry
Register for a couple more items
Print and assemble programs
Print and assemble menu cards
Write thank-yous

There's so much to do! Thank you memorial day weekend for showing up just in time. :)

14 days, 5 hours, 45 minutes!!! So close!!!!

My World is Getting Crazy

The wedding is fast approaching – like at lightening speed. Every second of every day is filled with wedding talk and adding to my once short to-do list.

Seating chart is done. Program is drafted. Ceremony music is selected. Hand clappers are ready to go.

This weekend’s Agenda: meeting with the ballpark, meeting with the DJ, marriage license, assembling programs, and more.

I’m sorry this post is so scattered. My brain is kind of scattered too.

16 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes

The LONG Apartment!! :)

As promised, here are pictures of our new home. Every day I walk into the front door, I remember how much I love this cute place. It has the perfect amount of space for us and things are beginning to find their new homes in all of the nooks and crannies. This place really looks like it was made for us.

The Kitchen! It’s smaller than my last place but still barely fits all of our things.

The Office! It holds all of Phillip’s sports memorabilia, our books, a desk, and a futon for guests (like Heather when she comes in tomorrow)!

The Guest Bathroom! This is the one all of you visitors will be seeing. Garden tubs in both bathrooms. This one is our monogrammed bathroom with monogrammed towels and a color scheme of shades of champagne.

The Dining Room! Samantha gave us her wonderful table that fits perfectly in our dining nook with our new bar/buffet. Yes, that is a wall of mirrors on the back wall. This is the only thing I would change about the apartment. It’s only from the chair rail up. We are going to convince ourselves to embrace this detail.

The Living Room! I love this space! We were worried about our furniture fitting in this arrangement but I actually think we couldn’t have had a better fit. I love the beautiful fireplace with cement sturdy mantle. We also have a three pane glass door that goes out onto our spacious balcony (pictures to come when we finish decorating it). I can already see our first Christmas here. We do need to purchase a chair and ottoman for each of the corners on the sides of the fireplace and some more artwork. This place is still a work in progress, you know!

The Master Bathroom! Small picture, but it’s hard to take a picture of due to the angles. It looks pretty much exactly like the guest bathroom, with one door instead of two.

The Master Bedroom! This is really spacious for an apartment. We will eventually get a piece of furniture for the corner by the dresser and hang up tons more artwork. Again, work in progress.

Isn’t it just lovely!? I want all of you to come see it in person – especially once we get all of the finishing touches done. I can’t believe this is going to be our first home. We will remember this place forever and I know when it’s time to leave, we’ll be pretty sad.

Here’s to many great memories in our first home!

21 days, 2 hours, 40 minutes

Real Talk

Today marks the three week point to the wedding. Um now do you see how fast this is flying by? Just yesterday it was 6 months ago, and now it’s time to get down to brass tacks – is that how the saying goes?

Yesterday I wrote down a list of things that still need to be done. I was surprised by how long it is, but relieved that most of it will be finished this week. Like for instance, next Friday, we are meeting with the ballpark and DJ, and getting our marriage license. Crazy right!?

I still need to find a gift for Phillip for the big day. And we need to finalize the ceremony order (like last week). After the ceremony order is complete, we can move right along and finish this thing by my hopeful deadline of June 1. We’ll see.

21 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes

The Final Countdown

I can’t believe the wedding is a mere 3 1/2 weeks away. It’s crazy how fast that snuck up on us. There isn’t too much left to do. I mean, I have to finish up the programs, finalize our ceremony song selection for the string trio, and assign tables.

That doesn’t sound like too much work, does it? Well. Except for the fact that all I want to do recently is lay around and enjoy this wonderful apartment. Tonight is the first night I get to just relax without having to unpack a box, grocery shop, or bring another load from home. A bath is in store for me after I write this entry. I love the garden bath tub.

Heather comes in town on Sunday! :)

24 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes